American Enterprise Institute about his States Coronavirus response and the federal response to the pandemic. This is about half an hour. Thank you for joining us today. Were here with governor larry hogan of maryland to talk about the challenges we face as a country, grappling with the covid pandemic and some of the things that pamaryland has doneo deal with their epidemic of covid spread. This is really an unprecedented time of Global Pandemic. The Intelligence Community had long warned us about the risks of a pandemic and put it on par with risks of weapons of mass destruction and counterterrorism and cyber attack. As much as we thought we were prepared for this as a nation, we found going through this episode that we really didnt have all the preparations that we thought we had. And weve been unable to find, as a nation, a medium between allowing this virus to spread in a way thats causing a lot of death and suffering and strict lockdown, something thats acceptable to enough people
This episode we really did not have all the preparations that we thought we had. We have been unable to find as a nation a medium thats causing death and suffering thats acceptable to enough people to have some sort of approach that enough people find socially and culturally and economically acceptable. For continuing to see spread around the nation particularly in the south right now. Marilyn is among states it have grappled with epidemic spread and bring virus levels down. We i wanted to talk to the governor today about the things he did to try to a lot of activity in the states to bring back to maryland or and try to open schools and restart the economy and do the things that are people continued risk from the epidemic. So governor thank you for joining us and when to start with the question just generally, what do you think is going to evolve . What are you looking out of respect to the following the risks right now . So first of all, doctor godley, let me thank you for hosting her
Come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Today, a select subcommittee is pleased to welcome our distinguished panel, dr. Ben bernanke and dr. Janet yellen. Dr. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve by president george w. Bush in 2006 and oversaw the Federal Reserves response to the Global Financial crisis. Before his tenure as fed chair, dr. Bernanke served as the chair of president bushs council of economic advisers. Dr. Yellen served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve until 2010 to 2014, before being appointed chair in 2014 by president barack obama. Dr. Yellen also previously served in the white house as chair of the council of economic advisers. This is the first time that either dr. Bernanke or dr. Yellen has testified before Congress Since stepping down from the Federal Reserve these extraordinary times require congress to seek out advice from expert
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About the challenges we face as a country grappling with the covid pandemic and some of the things that weve done to deal with their epidemic this is unprecedented time of the Global Pandemic the Intelligence Community has long warned us about the risks of a pandemic and put it on par with weapons of mass destruction in counterterrorism and Cyber Attacks as much as we thought we were prepared for this as a nation, we found going through this episode we really did not have all the preparations that we thought we had. We have been unable to find as a nation a medium thats causing death and suffering thats acceptable to enough people to have some sort of approach that enough people find socially and culturally and economically acceptable. For continuing to see spread around the nation particularly in the south right now. Marilyn is among states it have grappled with epidemic spread and bring virus levels down. We i wanted to talk to the governor today about the things he did to try to a l